Outcome 1: Transform an existing printed information product into an on-screen information product to meet a specific audience need, evaluate the success of this information product, and explain its likely impact on the audience’s skills or work practices.
Area of Study 2: Data management
Outcome 2: Solve an information problem by collecting data and using database management software to manipulate that data.
Area of Study 3: ICT issues
Outcome 3: Contribute collaboratively to the creation of an on-screen information product that presents an analysis of a contemporary ICT issue and substantiates a point of view.
Unit 1 – Assessment Tasks
• using ICT tools and techniques, produce a solution and an information product in response to an identified need.
• visual presentations such as multimedia presentations
• oral presentations supported by a visual presentation
• a written report using ICT
• a test
Unit 2: IT pathways
Area of Study 1: Programming and pathways
Outcome 1: Demonstrate progression in the ability to use a programming or scripting language, record the learning progress electronically, and explain possible career pathways that require the use of the software skills.
Area of Study 2: Networks
Outcome 2: Represent a networked information system within an organisation, and describe the way a specified set of data flows through the system, where it is stored and where it is processed.
Area of Study 3: Tools, techniques and procedures
Outcome 3: On completion of this unit the student should be able to work collaboratively to design a solution and an information product for a client, taking into account client feedback, solve the information problem, and evaluate the efficiency and effectiveness of the solution and product.
Unit 2 – Assessment Task
• using ICT tools and techniques, produce a solution and an information product in response to a client brief
• visual presentations supported by a visual presentation
• a folio
• an electronic learning journal, such as a blog, to record learning progress
• a written report using ICT
• a test
Course Outline
Unit 1: IT in action
Area of Study 1: IT techniques
Outcome 1: Transform an existing printed information product into an on-screen information product to meet a specific audience need, evaluate the success of this information product, and explain its likely impact on the audience’s skills or work practices.Area of Study 2: Data management
Outcome 2: Solve an information problem by collecting data and using database management software to manipulate that data.Area of Study 3: ICT issues
Outcome 3: Contribute collaboratively to the creation of an on-screen information product that presents an analysis of a contemporary ICT issue and substantiates a point of view.Unit 1 – Assessment Tasks
• using ICT tools and techniques, produce a solution and an information product in response to an identified need.• visual presentations such as multimedia presentations
• oral presentations supported by a visual presentation
• a written report using ICT
• a test
Unit 2: IT pathways
Area of Study 1: Programming and pathways
Outcome 1: Demonstrate progression in the ability to use a programming or scripting language, record the learning progress electronically, and explain possible career pathways that require the use of the software skills.Area of Study 2: Networks
Outcome 2: Represent a networked information system within an organisation, and describe the way a specified set of data flows through the system, where it is stored and where it is processed.Area of Study 3: Tools, techniques and procedures
Outcome 3: On completion of this unit the student should be able to work collaboratively to design a solution and an information product for a client, taking into account client feedback, solve the information problem, and evaluate the efficiency and effectiveness of the solution and product.Unit 2 – Assessment Task
• using ICT tools and techniques, produce a solution and an information product in response to a client brief• visual presentations supported by a visual presentation
• a folio
• an electronic learning journal, such as a blog, to record learning progress
• a written report using ICT
• a test